Tatiana Kontou is the author of Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: from the fin de siècle to the neo-Victorian and co-editor with Sarah Willburn of The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. She is currently writing a monograph on Florence Marryat for Edinburgh University Press.

• 1.Introduction Tatiana Kontou2.Life after Death: Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead Andrew Mangham3.‘‘‘I thought you was an evil spirit’’’: The Hidden Villain of Lady Audley’s Secret Elizabeth Lee Steere4.Beyond These Voices: M. E. Braddon and the Ghost of Sensationalism Kate Mattacks5.‘‘Above the breath of suspicion’’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium Georgina O’Brien Hill6.‘‘God, or something like that’’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism Roxanne Harde7.Co-operation and Co-authorship: Automatic Writing, Socialism and Gender in Late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham Sarah Edwards8.‘‘A mere instrument’’ or ‘‘proud as Lucifer’’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893) Miriam Wallraven9.Whose Body? The ‘‘Willing’’ or ‘‘Unwilling’’ Mesmerized Woman in Late Victorian Fiction Susan Poznar10.The Savage Magnet: Racialization of the Occult Body in Late Victorian Fiction Sarah Willburn11. E. Nesbit’s New Woman Gothic - Nick Freeman

Tatiana Kontou is the author of Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: from the fin de siècle to the neo-Victorian and co-editor with Sarah Willburn of The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. She is currently writing a monograph on Florence Marryat for Edinburgh University Press.

• 1.Introduction Tatiana Kontou2.Life after Death: Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead Andrew Mangham3.‘‘‘I thought you was an evil spirit’’’: The Hidden Villain of Lady Audley’s Secret Elizabeth Lee Steere4.Beyond These Voices: M. E. Braddon and the Ghost of Sensationalism Kate Mattacks5.‘‘Above the breath of suspicion’’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium Georgina O’Brien Hill6.‘‘God, or something like that’’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism Roxanne Harde7.Co-operation and Co-authorship: Automatic Writing, Socialism and Gender in Late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham Sarah Edwards8.‘‘A mere instrument’’ or ‘‘proud as Lucifer’’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893) Miriam Wallraven9.Whose Body? The ‘‘Willing’’ or ‘‘Unwilling’’ Mesmerized Woman in Late Victorian Fiction Susan Poznar10.The Savage Magnet: Racialization of the Occult Body in Late Victorian Fiction Sarah Willburn11. E. Nesbit’s New Woman Gothic - Nick Freeman

Tatiana Kontou is the author of Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: from the fin de siècle to the neo-Victorian and co-editor with Sarah Willburn of The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. She is currently writing a monograph on Florence Marryat for Edinburgh University Press.

• 1.Introduction Tatiana Kontou2.Life after Death: Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead Andrew Mangham3.‘‘‘I thought you was an evil spirit’’’: The Hidden Villain of Lady Audley’s Secret Elizabeth Lee Steere4.Beyond These Voices: M. E. Braddon and the Ghost of Sensationalism Kate Mattacks5.‘‘Above the breath of suspicion’’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium Georgina O’Brien Hill6.‘‘God, or something like that’’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism Roxanne Harde7.Co-operation and Co-authorship: Automatic Writing, Socialism and Gender in Late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham Sarah Edwards8.‘‘A mere instrument’’ or ‘‘proud as Lucifer’’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893) Miriam Wallraven9.Whose Body? The ‘‘Willing’’ or ‘‘Unwilling’’ Mesmerized Woman in Late Victorian Fiction Susan Poznar10.The Savage Magnet: Racialization of the Occult Body in Late Victorian Fiction Sarah Willburn11. E. Nesbit’s New Woman Gothic - Nick Freeman